Is it not amazing that
the God of Israel took His “chosen ones” who rebelled against
Him and exiled them around the entire face of this planet
earth?Just when the “appointed time” had come for them to return
back to their homeland, the land in which nobody wanted
because it was a wasteland for two thousand years, now the whole world wants
a “piece of the pie” of Zion.

What is equally amazing is
that there are Christians or Islamists who serious
think that their church, mosque or religious affiliationsmakes
them eligible to take by defraud, as “spiritual
Israelites” the inheritance of the “chosen ones”. Whether
this inheritance is “temporal or spiritual”, many of them
will be abrogating their own genetic rights to the possession
of the Promised Land, whether on this planet or another dimension.
Unknown to them, they are willingly givingup their birthright,
not knowing that they are the Lost Sheep of the House
of Israel. It’s like the man, who sold his family estate,
to spend his life prospecting for a diamond mine; not realizing
that he had sold the largest diamond in the world thatwas
in the backyard of his own family inheritance.

We
can only begin to understand the vast destruction and desolation
of the northern tribal regions of Samaria, 2700 years ago
(conventional historical time), when we come to the realization that
the land that the Palestinians, with the support of every
nation of the world,except the United States, is demanding
to be their “rightful homeland” is the land that the God
of Israel has promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This same God prophesied
through the prophets that someday it would be inhabited
by the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel. You may very well
be that one, whose prophetic ancestral homeland is destined
to be yours, for you might be that “lost Israelite”.

Today,
in the Shomron
region, the West Bank of Israel and also in the region of Galilee,
is where the international world today is trying to force
the modern Jewish State of Israel to give this land to the Palestinians
for a homeland. It is true, that this
land will not be the final
homeland for the Jewish people. But it will be
the prophetic homeland for the entire House of Israel when the House
of Israel (Lost Tribes) and the House of Judah (Jews) seek together
a united redemption and restoration by the Eternal One of
Israel.

In the land where thousands
of katyusha
missiles rained down upon the Jewish population of Galilee,
the land where the Palestinian Authority claims as its own possession
surrounding Ramallah, the land of Damascus, Lebanon, plus most
of the land of Jordan will someday possibly be your inheritance.
If you don’t believe this, than you probably don’t believe in the prophets
of Israel or the God of Israel. Ifyou believe in the entire
literal prophetic revelation of the God of Israel, from Genesis
to Revelation, then you probably have been genetically stamped
with the ancestral genes of the Lost Tribes of Israel. These next few
chapters may very well be the story of your ancestors and their
hope of redemption should be yours also.

When the prophetic day
arrives, and the God of Israel opens up the international
diplomatic gates for the repopulation and repatriation by the
descendants of the “Lost Israelites” from the Americas,
Europe, EuroAsia, India and China,
do you truly believe that Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, the Palestinian Authority, and even
the Nation of
Jordan will open up their lands, with open arms, for
your inhabitation as descendants of ancient Israel?Do
you think that the Jews in Israel will open up their arms
for you to live in Galilee and the region of the West Bank?Your answer may determine your prophetic future!

In
the 8th
century BCE, the homeland of the entire northern tribes of
Israel became a wasteland. Except for a remnant of
the Houses of Dan and Simeon, the entire population was taken
captive and deported to the land of the Medes along the River Gozan
on the southwest coastline of the Caspian Sea. This was about eight hundred miles
northeast of Jerusalem.

As the biblical account
was written, the tribes ofReuben, Gad and Reubenand half of the tribe of Manassehwere
the first of
the tribes of Israel to be exiled. It was the Assyrian monarch Tiglath
Pileser,in the years of 745-741 BCE, who deported the
firstwave of exiles to Assyria. Other scholars state that the
tribes of Gad
and Reubenand half of the tribe of Manassehthat lived on the other side
of the Jordan River were also included in this first deportation.
According to the sacred writ, the areas of deportation were
four regions;

1.Halah,

2.Habor
or Lahlah

3.Hara,

4.River
Gozan

River Go’zan - According to Saadia
Gaon, the Lost Tribes of Israel
were sent to the “River Go’zan” which is “the river north of the city of Balach
in the north of Afghanistan. The river is known today as the “AmufiDarya”, and is the border
between Afghanistan and Russia. Afghanistan tradition states that
the whole river was once known as the Gozen River.(Cited by Musiz Pakistan, “Ethnic Cleansing in Pakistan”)

Habor – The area of Habor’s
location is found in the mountainous pass (Habor) betweenAfghanistan and Pakistan that is called “Pesh-Habor”. It is believed that this is the famous mountainous
pass, Khyber
Pass. That
city today is known as Peshawar, on the Pakistani
side of the Khyber Pass is called the “city after the
pass”.

Hara – The city of Hara
is located near the Persian border called Harat.Today, it is the third largest city in Afghanistan.
The prophecy of Isaiah gives some identification for it alludes
that the deportation of the Israelites brought the 10-Israelite
tribes to the land of “Sinim”.

As we
analyze the following text we get
the impression that the wanderings of the Lost tribes
initially moved eastward towards the land of Pakistan, the mountainous
land of Kashmir that is disputed by Pakistan and India
today, and the mountain Buddhist kingdom of Tibet high in the
Himalayas being fought over by China and the huge Nation of
China beyond.Into all of these nations the Lost Tribes left
their progeny and their spiritual traditions behind.

Isaiah 49:12 – “In an acceptable time I have heard you,
and in the day of salvation I have helped you; I will preserve you
and give you as a covenant to the people to restore the earth…Surely
these shall come from afar; Look! Those from the north and the east, and these from
the land
of Sinim.”

These areas are critical to the
area of our study because the Israelites, called the “Sak-Geloths”,
the “prisoners
of Isaac” were taken to the River Gozan
that has been identified by many scholars as being the River Uzen. It
flows northwardthrough the land of ancient Media into the southeast corner
of the Black
Sea. This today, is the region of the Nation of Georgia
which Russia
attacked on Tisha B’Av (9th of Av), on August 10, 2008 and renewed the
“Cold
War” between the East and the West. Suddenly the world was thrown again
into the nuclear noose of global competition for world
domination.

The
Russian
bear suddenly arose from hibernation and sent her armed
nuclear fleet roaming the Mediterranean Sea, the Black and the Baltic Sea,
the Atlantic
Ocean along the Caribbeanand South American coastlines. The Russian Aircraft carrier
Admiral Kuznetsov with a complete task force was sent at the Russian naval port
at the Syrian city of Tartus just northof Lebanon and Israel.
Russia also sent her nuclear powered Peter the Great, one of Russia’s
largest warships and submarine destroyer Admiral Chabenenkoto dock at
the Venezuela port of La Guaira to participate in war games on November 25, 2008.

Two Russian long range strategic bomberslanded
in Venezuela’s
capital, Caracas for the first time in September. Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev landed at Havana on theCaribbean Nation of Cuba where America locked
horns with Russia during the 1962 nuclear missile crisis. Many speculated
that Russia will seek to open a military base on that island
nation in response to the US missile defense shield in Eastern
Europe.

BibleSearchers, in the fall of 2008, identified
the Nation of
Georgia as the “Israel of the Caucuses” in the article subtitle,
“The
Georgian Israeli Puzzle”. This was a major empireduring
the Roman
Catholic Crusadesto the Middle East in the 11-12th
century. The Empire of Georgia was ruled by “The
Ancient Royal Davidian Monarchy of the Caucasus Nation of Georgia.”Theleading monarchs of this Davidian Empire had the names
of King David
and Queen Tamar
for theywere of the non-Solomonic royal lineage of the House
of Nathan.

In the same region of thisJewish
dynastic empirein the12th century CE, the God of Israel
first planted his lost Israelites. They later emerged as the
famous Scythians of the Northern Plains. They also
would impregnate this region with Hebrew bloodlines,
traditions, and folklore that would make this same land
ripe for Jewish Davidian royal influence and authority twenty centuries later.

Not only that, it would also
prepare this region to be the “firebrand” in the 21st Century
to erupt this planet into a new“Cold War”careening
towards a “Hot War”. The time had come for the 21st century
global powers brokers seeking world domination to set
their stakes and align all the global powers against each other
in the Chess Game of Global Domination. The Red Internationale as
the Red Communist Marxist-Leninist countries of Russia and China
would be aligned in opposition against the Golden Internationale
of the Western Internationalists and Economic Globalists of the European
Union and the United States. Between them would stand the
rising Shi’ite Nation of Persia-Iran seeking a global
Islamic Caliphate under the rule of the returning Islamic Mahdi
(messiah). The home of ancient Persia would soon become a
destructive
vortex (tornado)
seeking to explode this planet into a nuclear caldron
in her bid to destroy the Jewish-Israeli presence in the entire
Middle East.The time of the end had finally arrived.

It was into this same region
in the Caucasus, according to Professor Hannay(cited by Haberman, pg 123) the Nation of
Israel earlier departed by forced exile, later migrated to as
upwards to three
million Israelis lived in virtual isolation except to pay
tribute to the Assyrian Empire. They later disappeared from
classical world history. The first of the prophets to predict
the fall of the Kingdom of Israel and the first to predict
the deportation of the Israelite nation was uttered by the words
by Hosea the prophet upon the birth of his firstborn son, Jezreel:

Hosea 1:4 – “So he went and tookGomer,
the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him
a son. Then the Lord said to him: “Call his name Jezreel, for in
a little while I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on
the house of Jehu, and bring an end to the kingdom of the House of Israel.

Hosea 1:6 – “And she conceived again
and bore a daughter. Then God said to him: ‘Call her nameLo-Ruhamah (Unpitied) for
I will no longer have mercy on the House of Israel, but I will utterly take them
away. Yet I will have mercy on the House of Judah,
will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them
by bow, nor by sword or battle, by horses or horsemen.’”

Then there came the prophecy
of Isaiah that was given when King Pekah of Israel was negotiating an alliance
with King Rezin
of Syria to take down the throne of King Ahaz of
Judah.

Isaiah 7:8 – “Within three score and five
years (65
years), shall Ephraim be broken so that it will not be
a people.”

As we shall soon see, it was in
the year of 741
BCE that the Kingdom of Israel was brought to the end
of its autonomous and independent kingdom. Sixty five years later,
in the year of 676 BCE, the 10 Tribes of Israel called collectively by the
prophets as “Ephraim” would cease to be national people,
and disappear into the mist of ancient history.

The first
invasionby the Empire of Assyria
came in the year of 741 BCEand
initiated a series of four invasionsby
Assyria. This finally led toIsrael’s
vassalage under the rule
of the evil King Menahem to the Empire of Assyria. As theIsraeli royal chroniclers wrote:

II Kings 15:19-20 – “Pul (King
Tiglath-pileser), king of Assyria came against the
land; andMenahem gave
Pul athousand
talents of silver (4000 pounds of silver) that
his hand might be with him to strengthen the
kingdom under his control. And Menahem
exacted the money from Israel, from all
the very wealthy, from each man fifty
shekels of silver, to give to the
king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and did not stay
there in the land.”

The Kingdom of Israel
remained a united and sovereign nation. There
was no annexation of any territory to Assyria, and no
deportations of Israelites were taken back to Assyria. Yet,
a financial catastrophe hit this small kingdom. Everybody was affected
from the rich to the poor. To many scholars, this invasion was
not counted as an Assyrian invasion. The economic catastrophe spelled her
final demise.

The second
invasionbyTiglath-pileserwas devastating.
Most of the region surrounding Galilee
was lost and depopulated. The Trans-Jordanian
tribesthat lived on the
“other side of the
Jordan” were destroyed. The population
taken into captivity and the Kingdom of Israel shrunk
in size about 65%. Israel
still remained as a nation with a much reduced
population.

II Kings 15:29 – “In the days of Pekah king of
Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king
of Assyria came and took Ijon,
Abel, Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all
the land of Naphtali; and he
carried them captive to Assyria.”

II Chronicles 5:26 – “The God of Israel stirred
up…the spirit of Tiglat-Pileser, king of Assyria, and he
carried them away, even the Reubenites, and
the Gadites, and half
tribe of Manasseh, and brought
them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the River
Gozan.”

In the fragmentary
lines of the chronicles of Tiglath Pileser in the Assyrian
cuneiform rolls, we find the following two
accounts:

Tiglath Pileser – “The
cities of…Gala’za, Abilkka, which are on the border of Bit-Humria
(sons of Omri)…the whole land of Naphtali, in its entirety, I
brought within the border of Assyria. My official I set over them as
governor…”(D.D. Luckenbill, Ancient
Records of Assyria and Babylon (1926) pg 292, cited by J. Llewellyn Thomas,
“The Assyrian Invasions and Deportations of Israel” pg. 17)

Tiglath Pileser – “The
land of
Bit-Humria (Omri) all of its
people together with all their goods I carried off to
Assyria. Pakaha (Pekah) their
king they deposed, and I placed Ausias (Hosea) king. Ten
talents (seven hundred pounds) of gold, ten
talents (seven hundred pounds) of silver, as their
tribute I received from them, and to Assyria I carried them.” (D.D. Luckenbill, “Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylon “(1926) pg
292, cited by J. Llewellyn Thomas, “The Assyrian Invasions and Deportations of
Israel” pg. 17)

The Assyrian
plan of attack and assaultupon the
land of Israel in Pul’s campaign shows that he invaded the
Kingdom of Israel from the north coming down the coastline
of the Mediterranean Sea through Phoenicia (Western Syria and modern
day Lebanon), north of the Litani River. The
troopsswept in a diagonal pass through the upper half of Asher, the entire
tribe of Napthali, the rebellious
tribal portion of Dan
straight north of Galilee, southwestof Mount
Hermon, on the western side of
Galilee.They
then moved through the southwestern region of Manasseh, on the
eastern side of the Sea of
Galilee, and then through the entire lands
of Gilead and Reuben on the east
side of the Jordan
River and the northern
half of the Dead
Sea.

The Prophet
Isaiah speaking of
these two invasions stated:

Isaiah 9:1 – “When
at first He lightly esteemed the land of Zebulon and the
land of Naphtali (first
invasion), and afterward more
heavily oppressed her, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan,
in Galilee of the Gentiles (second
invasion).”

What was
more important for here began the “sifting” of the Kingdom
of Israel as the God of Israel began to sift and blend her
genes into the nations of the world.

Amos 9:8-9 – “’Behold,
the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom (of Israel),
and I will destroy it from the face of the earth; yet I will
not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,’ saith the Lord. ‘For
surely I will command, and
will sift the house of Israel among all nations, as grain
is sifted in a sieve; yet not the smallest grain shall fall
to the ground. All the sinners of My people shall die by the
sword, who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront
us.’”

Eighteen years later, in the
year of 723 BCE, the House
of Israel was again invaded for the third
time, this time by the Assyrian forces
of Shalmaneser.The capital city of
Samaria was put under siege and the people were permanently
exiled from the land of their inheritance as prophesied by
the Prophet Hoseafifty
years prior.

This assault upon
the Kingdom of Israel was disastrous. It terminated the Kingdom
of Israel, an event that has not been reversed
to this day (2009). The
causation was because King Hosea refused not only
to pay tribute to Assyria, but had appealed to Egypt which
had a catastrophic effect upon their international relationships. The
primary causation was because King Hosea refused to heed and obey
the commands of the Lord.

II Kings 17:5-6; also II Kings 18:9-11 – “Then the king of Assyria
came up through outall the land, and went up to Samaria,
and besieged it three years. In
the ninth year of Hoshea, the king
of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria,
and placed them in Halah and in Habor (by)
the river of Gozan, and in
the cities of the Medes."

II
Kings 17:5-6; also II Kings 18:9-11 – “Then the king
of Assyria came up throughoutall the land, and went up
to Samaria, and besieged it three years. In
the ninth year of Hoshea, the king
of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria,
and placed them in Halah and in Habor (by)
the river of Gozan, and in
the cities of the Medes."

Sargon II of Assyria, the Commander
in Chief, or the Tartan of
Shalmaneser, confirmed that this siege and deportation
occurred in 721 BCE when he
left his memoirs on the wall of the palace of Sargon II at
Nineveh which read:

Sargon II of Assyria – “In
the beginning of my reign the city of Samaria I besieged, I
took by the help of the god Shamash…the city of Samaria.
Twenty-seven thousand two hundred and eighty of its inhabitants
I carried away… I took them to Assyria and put into places
people whom my hands had conquered. I set my officers and governors
over them, and laid on them a tribute as on the Assyrians. (Cited by Frederick Haberman, “Tracing our Ancestors”, pg. 123)

The Kingdom of Israel was
completely destroyed forever. Never
again would she rise again as a governing
state until the day of the Messiah. At this time the prophet
foretold that the House of Israel
would return and be united with the House of Judah, and there
they would be ruled by one ruler; the Messiah, David, son of David, save maybe the tribe of Dan, for eternity.

During
these centuries, the House of Israel
would be known by many different names. On the Behistun Rock, Darius the Great boasted on his inscriptions that he had taken the Nation
of Israel. He identified Israel as the Saks,
or Sakithat went into
rebellion first against Assyria and later against Babylon. They
were depicted by wearing the typical conical cap of the Goths or Scyths and one was
called the name of Sakunka.

The Sakiwere also known by the name of Manda,named after one of their chieftains of
which, according to Haberman, was ruled by Cyaxarsestheir king,
and joined with the Babylonian king Nabopolaser,
to destroy Nineveh in the year of 606 BCE. Here, the last “Zar” of Assyria, Ashur-Etililani. He perished in the “funeral pyre” of his court in flames. At this moment of time,
at Nineveh, the House of Israel
began to fulfill of its prophetic destiny.

Jeremiah 51:20-21 – “You are My battle-ax and weapons of war: for with you I
will break the nation in pieces;
with you I willdestroy kingdoms; with you
I will break in pieces the horse and its rider; with you
I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider.”

After 721 BCE, Assyria once again invaded the land of Israel and Judah, for the fourth time in the year of702 BCE. King
Sennacherib, the son of King Sargon II, arrived into the land of Israel. He swiftly
swept over the outlying garrison towns of Judah, 46 in number, but was never able to take down Jerusalem.
It was not that Jerusalem was so formidable, but the God
of Israel had a different plan. A large part of the towns and
villages of Judah were destroyed and taken into captivity.

The city
of Jerusalem was spared, not by
military might or diplomacy, but by a massive bolide, with millions of volts of electricity. It shot out
of the heavens and struck the camp of the Assyrians with
all their military metallic helmets, shields, spears, and coats of
mail that attracted this high voltage flux of energy from the heavens
and grounded it through them into the earth. It annihilated and charred the
entire Assyrian force lying asleep on the Judean hillsides.King
Sennacherib was burned and scarred extensively and upon returning
to Assyria was assassinated in his court by his sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, who fled
and Esar-Haddon his sonreigned in
his place.

II Kings 19:35 – “And
it came to pass on a certain night
that the angel of the Lord went out, and killed in the camp
of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty five thousand, and when people arose early in the morning,
there were the corpses – all dead.”

The Fifth
Assyrian Invasion of Esar-Haddon, son of Sennacherib

The
fifth
invasionbyAssyriais usually not remembered by readers
and students of the Israelite Exile. There was no mention of it
in the Second
Book of Kings and it received only brief notice in the
Second Book of
Chronicles. All the former citizens of the Northern Kingdom of
Israel were now gone. They were bothdeported
and sent into exile or migrated earlier or fled just right
before or between the prior invasions.

And so it was in the year
of 676 BCE
that the Assyrian
King Esar-Haddon, the son of King Sennacherib arrived. Though
his name is not recorded in biblical history, the lineages
of the Assyrian kings on the ancient inscriptions give us that information.
Actually it was forty five years after the fall of the Northern Kingdom of
Israel that Esar-Haddon traveled
through the former now desolate land
of Israel on his way to Jerusalem. He accomplished
a military feat that his father failed so dramatically when Sennacherib’smilitary invasionforce was completely disseminated. Strange
as it may be, the biblical narrative does not speak of a war,
a siege, or an invasion, but does state that the God of
Israel sent the Assyrian King Esar-Haddon to capture and punish
the most “evil” king ever to sit on the throne of Kings
David and Solomon.

The King of Assyria, Esar-Haddon, arrived in Israel
on the fifth
invasion. Instead of deporting the Kingdom of Judah, Esar-Haddonbound up the wicked King Manasseh and took him in chains to Babylon. He punished
and reprimanded him for being such a cruel and heartless king
to his people that he later repented and reformed his ways. King Manasseh returned to rule and serve the God of his people.

II Chronicles 33:11-13 – Therefore the Lord
brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of
Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze
fetters, and carried him off to Babylon. Now when he was in
affliction, he implored the Lord his God, and humbled
himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed to Him;
and He received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought
him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the
Lord was God.”

The Eternal One use a pagan
foreign king, whose empire had already destroyed the kingdom
of Israel and this time, gave King Manasseh a mind-altering experience of reproof.
For all the evil we might consider against the kings of Assyria
for being such tyrants to God’s chosen people, it took an Assyrian
king to give reproof for being such an evil ruler over
his own people. King Esar-Haddon set the stage for Manasseh’s spiritual
rehabilitation. It’s amazing how God had to use the enemies
of Israel and even Judah to set judgment and to reprove
their wickedness. King Manasseh was pacified and repatriated
back to his rule as the king of Judah. What was the effect?
He fortified the city of Jerusalem at the Ophel where the priests
later lived south of the temple and “raised it to a great
height”. Then Manasseh implemented a royal act of restoration of
the temple to its original holiness.

II Chronicles 33:15-16– “He took away
the foreign gods and the idols from the house of the Lord,
and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house
of the Lord and in Jerusalem; and he cast them out of the city.
He also repaired the altar of the Lord, sacrificed peace offerings
and thank offerings on it, and commanded
Judah to serve the Lord God of
Israel.”

This was a remarkable
reformation and restoration and we wonder if this will be a shadow
picture of the time of the end, when it will take the king
of an “evil” empire, to reform the corrupt politicians, prime ministers
and presidents of the Nations of Israel? Will it take an enemy
of the State of Israel to “teach” the “ruler” how to have integrity,
honesty, and how he is suppose to serve his God, the Almighty One
of Israel? No Jews were killed, no Jews were deported and no
land in Judah was annexed. Yet something strange happened; the king
reformed but the people did not. Though all the official idols
were taken from Jerusalem and the mount of the House of
the Lord, the people still wanted to worship their own way. They
could not believe that when God asks us to do something in a specific
way, He means for it do be done that way.

II Chronicles 33:17 – “Nevertheless the people still sacrificed on the high places, but only to the Lord their God.”

In spite of the fact
that Manasseh repented of his evil ways and restored what he
did wrong, the kingdom and the people continued their autonomous,
independent, and self-affirming ways of how to serve the Lord.
It would not be for another 89 years, until 587 BCE that King Nebuchadnezzar captured and destroyed the
city of Jerusalem and the beautiful Temple of Solomon. If the people
would not worship how God asked them to worship, then He
would removed His presence from the city He called His own,
and have His own “House” destroyed.

The complete exile of Israel and Ephraim had now been accomplished for beginning with the 1st
deportation beginning in the year of 741 BCE, to the last invasion into Israel in the year of 676 BCE, the prophecy of Isaiah the Prophet had been fulfilled and the deportations of
Israel were permanently completed:

Isaiah 7:8 – “Within threescore and five years”, said Isaiah, “shall Ephraim be broken, that it
be not a people.

(741 BCE – 676 BCE = 65 years)

The Israeliteswere
first
identified in these deportations as the Sak-Geloths (“Prisoners of Isaac”)
who eventuallylived hour hundred miles east of Nineveh and eight hundred miles
northeast of Jerusalem. The Sak-Geloths would later be
identified as the Saki (“children of Isaac”) that eventually became the
European Goths and the British Anglo-Saxons.

There
was another purpose for the invasion through the Land of
Israel. As the Israelites from the Northern Kingdom of Israel followed the Assyrian Kings Pul
(Tiglath-pileser)
and Shalmaneser
(Sargon)
out
of the Land of Israel, so King Esar-Haddonfollowed the same imperial
policy and as he arrived into the land of the former Northern Kingdom of
Israel, he brought with him a massive importation of foreigners
or gentiles. This cosmopolitan blend of people which we today proudly
call diversity was an anathema for the God of Israel. It
did not come with His blessing but with His judgment upon the
children of Israel. Called the Samaritans, they made no claim to be Israelites,
but were proud of their diversity of color, religious and cultural
backgrounds. They also openly admitted that they were also forced to
settle in the land.

Though they took many
aspects of Hebrew lifestyle, they always stood in opposition
to the Jewish people as they sought to reclaim Jerusalem after
their Babylon and Persian exile. Like the Palestinians
today, who were imported into Palestine by the major Arab states
to counter-act the British Mandate by the League of Nations
to create the Land of Israel for a homeland for the Jews,
the Samaritans did everything they could to drive the Jewish
presence out of the land of Israel.

II Kings 17:24 – “Then the king of Assyria (Esar-Haddon)
brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and from Sepharvaim,
and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children
of Israel…”

This policy of deportation
and importation continued into the next ruler’s reign, the son
of King
Esar-Haddon called King Asnapper. Years later, it was the Samaritans
who recounted the history of their importation as they wrote a
letter against the Jews back to the Shah of Persia, King Artaxerses.

Ezra 4:10 – “From Rehum, the commander,
Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions –
representatives of the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites,
the people of Persia and Erech and Babylon and Shushan,
the Dahavites, the Elamites, and the rest of the nations
whom the great
noble Osnapper took captive and settled in the cities
of Samaria and the remainder beyond the River – and so forth.”

The facts
were now starkly clear. With the Jewish admission that these foreign
gentiles were “placed in the cities of Samaria instead of the children
of Israel” was a vivid reality that the “House of Israel”
was no longer “a people” in the Promised Land of Israel.At
this moment of time, two prophetic streams converged into one larger stream.
We remind ourselves of Isaiah’s prophetic insight that was given
when King
Pekah of Israel was negotiating an alliance with King Rezin of
Syria to take down the throne of King Ahaz of Judah that in “three score and five
years”shall
Ephraim be
broken, that it be not a people”.It once again affirmed
Isaiah’s prophecy:

Isaiah 7:8 – “Within three score and five
years (65
years), shall Ephraim be broken so that it will not be
a people.”

The prophecy of Isaiah
was contrasted with Hosea’s family drama called the Lo-Ruhamah prophecy,
“I will
utterly take them away.”

Hosea 1:6 – “And she conceived again
and bore a daughter. Then God said to him: ‘Call her nameLo-Ruhamah (Unpitied) for
I will no longer have mercy on the House of Israel, but I will utterly take them
away. Yet I will have mercy on the House of Judah,
will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them
by bow, nor by sword or battle, by horses or horsemen.’”

Only a few years later,
the Prophet
Jeremiah wrote to the Jews about their fate, by reminding
them of the fate of Ephraim (Israel):

Jeremiah 7:12, 14-15 (parts) – “But go now
to My place which was in Shiloh, where I set My name at the first,
and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My
people Israel…therefore I will do to the house which is called
by My name…and
I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your
brethren – the whole posterity of Ephraim.”

The prophetic era prophesied
by the Lord of hosts was now complete. As we earlier learned,
in the year of 741 BCE, the independent and autonomous Kingdom of Israel
was brought to its end. Sixty five years later, in the year of 676 BCE, the 10 Tribes of Israel
called collectively by the prophets as “Ephraim” ceased
to be national people. They would disappear but theirGod,
the God of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob would always be watching over them.

We will search, ponder, and watch
for the tracing of the people that would be called by the nations
of the world by the “name of Isaac” and represented by their leading
tribe, Ephraim,
the youngest son of Joseph, who would be represented by the “name of Israel”.
Throughout the biblical prophecies they would now be known as
the House of
Israel.

Our first journey
will take us to the recent yearsafter the exile of
the House of
Judah by King Nebuchadnezzar. We will see the “imprint” how
the God of Israel was to use the “hidden”House of Israel
that had disappeared, who would shape, mold, and then destroy
the empires that would follow and oppress the visible
remnant of the Hebrews; the Jewish people.

The Guti
(Gadite Israelite) General of Cyrus the Great leads the “Bloodless” Takeover of
Babylon

The last place of exile, the “cities of the Medes”
is probably the easiest to identify. This region
is important for within a century, the House of Judah would also be
taken into captivity to the land of Babylon. Out of the land
of the Medes would arise a “savior” for the Jews called Cyrus the Great,
whose roots did come from the land of Media. Did not Isaiah proclaim
and Josephus confirmed that Cyrus the Great read the prophecy about him that
was writtentwo
hundred years before his day?

Was Gobryas,
the Israelite lance bearer and General of Cyrus (Darius) as Portrayed on the
Behistun Stone?

Isaiah 45:1-4 (parts) - “Thus says the Lord
to His
anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held – To
subdue nations before him and loose the armor of kings, to
open before him the double doors, so that the gates
will not be shut…that you may know that I,
the Lord, who call you by your name,
Am the God of Israel. For Jacob My servant’s sake, and
Israel My elect, I have even called you by your name; I have
named you, though you have not known Me.”

BibleSearchers – “On
October
12, 539 BCE, the forces of Cyrus II, the founder of the Achaemenian Empire entered
the city of Babylon through the bronze gates of the Euphrates
below the city walls, under the command of General Gobryas, leader of the Guti.The city was quickly pacified and this became
histories’ most peaceful military conquest of a major imperial city.

It was earlier the same
month when the Babylonian
king Nabonidus in defense of his country met the Persian
army under the command of the Persian kingCyrus the Great
at Opis, claimed to be
the site of ancient Baghdad in one of histories’ most important
theaters of war. The Babylonian army was defeated and immediately
the native population of the citizens of Babylon revolted against
their king. According to Nabonidus Chronicle, Cyrus the Great continued
on towards its victory under the walls of Babylon. The Nabonidus
chronicle describes the event:

Nabonidus Chronicle – “In
the month of
Tashritu, when Cyrus attacked the army of Babylonia in
Opis on the Tigris, the inhabitants of Babylonia revolted,
but he (Cyrus, Nabonidus?) massacred the confused inhabitants. On
the fifteenth
day (October 12), Sippar was seized without battle.
Nabonidus fled. On the sixteenth day, (the Persian commander) Gobryas,
the governor
of Gutium, and the army of Cyrus entered Babylon without
battle. Afterwards, Nabonidus was arrested in Babylon when he
returned there.

Cyrus did not actually enter the gates
of the city for over a month. On November 9, 539 BCE, Cyrus rode
through the Ishtar
Gate while the masses of the city layered a pathway
of green twigs welcoming him with their sign of peace and honor.
The invincible city that hosted the largest remnant of God’s
chosen people from the Nation of Judah was invaded and conquered
in a bloodless battle.

Who was thisGobryasand
who were theGuti?We find in western Iran, the land
of the ancient nation of Media, was the primary home of
the displaced tribes of Israel.Here we see the home
of the Guti or
Catti,
a people or tribe the linguists of ancient tongues feel is
a derivation of GadilorGador in other words, of theTribe of Gad.
The Guti
and the Catti
(Gadites)
intermingled with the Saki,or the other (12) tribes of Isaac can be seen
as a collective term for the House of Israel and the House of Judah. The God
of Abraham was using one part of His “chosen people, Israel” to protect
the other part
of His “chosen people the Jews of the Kingdom of Judah”.

The question many will raise
is why the House of Judah was identified with the tribes
deported to Media?”Was not Judah saved from the deportations
of Sennacherib?

Take another look at the history
of the deportation of Israel by Sennacheriband maybe you will also come
to the sameconclusion that a large part of the House of Judah
was also deported
to the Assyrian
provinces. As Sennacherib and his war machine was roaring
through the Nation of Judah, town after town was destroyed.
Professor D.D. Luckenbill in his book, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylon,
gives the following translation of Sennacherib’s version of the siege
against Jerusalem in the Taylor Prism of Sennacherib.

Taylor Prism of Sennacherib
- “As for Hezekiah,
the Jew,
who did not submit to my yoke, 46of his strong walled cities, as well as the small
cities in their neighborhood…by escalade and by bringing
up siege engines, by attacking and storming on foot, by mines,
tunnels and breaches I took. 200,150 people, great and small, male
and female, horses, mules, asses, camels, cattle and sheep
without number, I brought away from them and counted as spoil.Himself, like a caged bird, I shut up in Jerusalem, his royal city.”
(Luckengill, Prof D.D., Ancient Records of
Assyria and Babylon, recorded in Tracing Our Ancestors by Frederick
Heberman)

Yes, he trappedHezekiah
‘like a bird
in a cage’. Over two hundred thousand Judaites were deported
along with the Israelites from the Northern Kingdom. The only
citizens spared in the Land of Judah and Benjamin were those that had sought
protection in the city of Jerusalem. Here the Angel of the Lord smote the forces of Sennacherib and the remnant of the House
of Judah was spared.

Looking at the Imperial
rise of Cyrus
the Great, we can now see the House
of Isaac and Judahas
thebackbone to the power of the Median Empire.
They are seen as the Saki or Saks on the Behistun Rock and it
was they who became triballeadersin thewars of rebellion
and dissent against the Assyrians by the people
of Media. It is believed that the Saks also came under
the name of Manda,
a title of
a chieftain. It was the tribe of Mandi (Israelites) thatCyaxarses, the ruler of the
Medesfirst became king before he joined forces withNabopolaser,the father of Nebuchadnezzar II, the Babylonian king who overthrew the
Assyrians, when he marched against Nineveh in 614 BCE.
The Assyrian capital was destroyed after a two year siege (612 BCE) and
the last ‘Zar’
of Assyria, Ashur-Etihilani,perished and his court became
a funeral pyre as the flames of war destroyed his capital
city.

In the prior
chapter, we witnessed the combined forces of theBabylonians under
the rulership
of Nabopolaser and the new Manda chieftain, and now Median ruler Cyaxarsesattacking the disintegrating Empire to Assyria , first at Aššurin614 and two years laterdestroying the main capital city Nineveh.

Out of the flames of the embers of
Nineveh a new aspirant to the Imperial throne of Assyria, Aššur-uballit, made
his new capital andkingdom at Harran, confronting Nabopolaser and
Cyaxarses
with his rebellion. As noted in the Fall of Nineveh
Chronicle, Nabopolaser promptly 'marched
to Assyriavictoriously' in the fifteenth year of his reign (612 BCE) and drove
Aššur-uballit’s and his military forces out of the city of
Harran. The rebellion continued to smolder. In two years, PharaohNechoof Egypt
(610-595
BCE) sent a large military force to the north to assist
the Assyrian prince in his claim to the crumbling Assyrian
empire.

The question was asked, why did King Josiah of Judahdo the unexpected and try to sent a military force to
block the transit of the Egyptian forcestraveling up the coast
of the Mediterranean to join forces withAššur-uballit
against the combined forces of Nabopolaserand theMedian king Cyaxarses?

Necho sent a message to Josiah through
the Egyptian ambassadors with the message:

II
Chronicles 35:21 - “What have I to do with thee, thou king
of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the
house (Babylonians and Medes) therewith I have war: for God
commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who
is with me, that he destroys thee not.”

The scriptural text continues that Josiah “hearkened
not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came
to fight in the valley of Megiddo.” (vs. 22) went to battle
not as a king, but disguised as a military warrior and was mortally
killed by an Egyptian arrow.

If the thesis that the Mandi tribe and
the Saki were closely related, then we also have the thesis that
King Cyaxarses’ ancestry could possibly be linked to the House of
Israel. Was King Josiah, who was pro-Babylon like his grandfather,
Hezekiah,
actually sending a military force to assist his distant
relative of the House of Israel, King Cyaxarses of Media bytrying to hinder
the union of the Egyptian forces with the hated resurrection of
the Assyrian forces under the rulership of

But the mysteries are not
over. BibleSearchers has discussed in the past concerning the discrepancies
of who were Cyrus
the Great, Darius the Mede, and Ahasuerus, the king and husband of the Jewish Queen Esther?
In the BibleSearchers study of the Hidden Treasures of
the Temple of Solomon, we learned that the vast treasures
of the Temple
of Solomon were hidden by a secret
commando force of temple priests
before the arrivalof King Nebuchadnezzar. This was revealed in
the Emeq HaMelekh. This
manuscript, called the “Valley of the Kings” was discovered in Amsterdam
in 1992
by two rabbis,
Rachnael
Steinbergand his student, Mendel Tropper. It was written by a Rabbi Naftali Hertz ben
Ya’acov Elchanon in Amsterdam in the year of 1648 CE from
a Talmudic Tosefta called the “Massakhet Keilim” that was absent in modern
day versions of the Talmud.

Weexplored the profound
differences and discrepancies between the classical Persian calendar
written by Roman Catholic monks and the Jewish
calendar of the Lord
concerning the dates of the Persian era in the sub-titled
article, “The Jewish
Rabbinic Calendar and the History of the Exile of the Jews”.Concerning who was Cyrus the Great, Darius the Mede and Xerses as the
Ahasuerusof Queen Esther’s fame we quote:

BibleSearchers - “According to the rabbinic
chronology initially written by Rabbi Yose
b. halafta in his work, Seder Olam
Rabbah (The Great Order of the World),Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the
temple of Solomon in the year 421 BCE instead of 586 BCEby conventional
chronology. Cyrus (Koresh) the Great conquered Babylon in 539 BCE and
by the Jewish
calendar it was the year 368 BCE. Two years later, according to the rabbi,Xerses (Ahashverosh / Ahasuerus)
who ruled over Persia between 366 - 352 BCEmarried and
ruled with Esther
as his queen, while conventional chronology gives the reign of Xerses as 486-465 BCE.

According to
Vendyl
Jones to whom credit must be given
on revealing the Emeq HaMelekhto the public, Cyrus (Koresh), Darius (Daryavesh) the Mede
and Xerses
(Ahashverosh /Biblical
Ahasuerus) are all the same ruler.

As
such, according to Rabbi Yose b. halafta in his work, Seder Olam Rabbah, there was one Cyrus, one Xerses
and one
Darius until Alexander the Great
swept aside the Persian Empire after he
crossed the Cilician Gates and defeated the Persian Shah Darius II
Nothus in the Battle of Issus in the year of 333 BCE (conventional time). The Oriental Empires of
Babylon had 53 years of rule and the Persian’s had 51 years of ruleuntil the Occidental Empire of Greece
toppled the Oriental potentates, a total of 104 years. To the Jewish understanding in history
Cyrus
the Great was the same ruler
as Xerses and Darius the Mede, for
the name Darius actually meant ‘Lord’
andXersesmeant ‘monarch’.

Compare
this with the Conventional Chronology. TheBabylonian Empire
ruled for 48 yearsand then under oneCyrus, oneXerses, twoDarius and twoArtaxerses plus several intermittent upstartsandrivals, thePersians ruled for207
years, a difference of 156 years with the rabbinic calendar.

Another
way of comparing the Rabbinic
and the conventional chronologies, the date when the temple rebuildingbegan in 351 BCE (rabbinic) to 70 CE when thetemple was destroyedby the
Romans was a total of 422 years. As such, the seventy (70) weeks ‘to be
determined among thy people’(Jews) prophecy to
Daniel, known as the490 year prophecy would have put the time from the destruction of the
first temple in 421 BCEto thedestruction of Herod’s
temple in Jerusalem at 68 CE, a date
favored by many rabbis. If we use the 68 CE date for the destruction
of Solomon’s Temple in
Jerusalem, then in the conventional
chronology the time period from thedestructionof Solomon’s Temple in
Jerusalemin586 BCEto68 CEwould be654 years.

Xerses (Cyrus according to the rabbis), in the conventional chronology, has been
suggested to be theBiblical Ahasuerusand the king who married Queen Esther.As
such, the successor of Xerses, Darius Hystaspes the
Great, if he was a son, would
have been half Jew and half Persian.
Considering this, the second and third return of the Jewish people with Ezra and Nehemiah would have occurred during the reign of
a ruler of Persia that was of Jewish descent, because his mother
was a Jew. The decree to rebuild the temple of Zerubabbel in351
BCE (rabbinic calendar) would have
been exactly seventy years after its
destruction in 421 BCE.”

Yet
the mystery deepens, when we begin to challenge the conventional
and orthodox thinking of history, we notice that it states in the
scripture that Darius the Mede conquered and received the kingdom of Babylon for Cyrus
the Great on the night of Belshazzar’s last palace
banquet.

Daniel 5:31 – “That
very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans, was slain. And Darius the Mede
received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

We have to ask the question
with the understanding that Darius meant “lord” or “governor”;“WasGobryas the Guti, the general
of Cyrus the Great the same person as Darius the Mede?”This is
not a novel question, for BibleSearchers was not the first
to suggest this identity, as we have now learned. According
to the rabbinic Jewish calendar of the world, Cyrus the Greatruled between the years of 368-352 BCE for a total of sixteen years.
Fourteen of those years were in the marriage with the Jewish orphan, Esther,
who became the Queen of Persia in 366 BCE. Their son, Darius Hystaspes,
being half royal Persian and half Jewish, became the ruler
as the protector of the Jewish people.

Frederick Haberman, in his book,
“Tracing
our Ancestors”, using conventional dating quotes the synthesis of
understanding by Professor George Rawlinson, Herodotus and Diodorus,
when he wrote:

Frederick Haberman – “It appears, that
Cyrus himself was defeated and killed by the Saki in 529 BCE(352 BCE according
to the Jewish Calendar).Herodotus and Diodorus tell
us that Cyrus was killed by the Massa-getai, under their Queen Tomyris on the Jaxartes
River. Another prominent name attached itself to lost Israel, that
of Getai,
which is the Median form of Guti or Catti, and likewise means “wanderers,”
or “adventurers.”
And so indeed, for the God of Israel sent His peoplewandering
over Eastern and Western Asia for centuries and later into Europe.
Massagetai,
means, according to Professor George Rawlinson, (Canon of CanterburyandCamden
Professor of Ancient History) “Great Wanderers,” and it was they who defeated
Cyrus the
Great when he attempted to invade their territory on
the Jaxartes
Rivereast
of the Oxus.”
(Frederick Haberman, “Tracing our Ancestors”, pg.
125)

It
appears that General Gobryas the
Guti can possibly now be identified as Gobryas the leader
of the Israelites, who were known as the “Wanderers” or
“Adventurers”
and whose people, the Lost Tribes of Israel, known as the Massagetai in
turn sixteen
years later, killed Cyrus the Great when he tried to turn against
the Israelite
nation in exile. Other scholars identify that theMassagetai tribes
were actually theTribe of Manassehof theHouse of Joseph.
As we shall soon see later, the identityof the Israelites will once again reemergeinto a new identity
called the “Scythians”, which also means “wanderers”.

It
was these Saki
or Saks, who were also known as the Manda, who
were named after one their Israeli chieftains. With
the fall of the power of Asshur (Assyria) came with the collapse of their capital
at Nineveh, in the year of 612 BCE, by the Babylonian forces of Nabopolaser,the
father of Nebuchadnezzar
II, and the Median forces of Cyaxarses, the ruler of the
Medes. Yet, it was during and after the rule
of Cyaxarses, who ruled over the “Manda” tribes of Israel
that a vacuum of power resulted in this region when the proto-Babylonian
empire still in the making. The Saki, Guti,
Ghomri coalition of Israelite tribes
were to become the dominate power force of the Median Empire
in the region below the Caspian Sea.

It is believed that the first of the migrations
of the Saki, Ghomeri tribes occurredafter the time when
the Kingdom of
Judah and the Temple of Solomon was destroyed in 586 BCE. TheJewish remnants were deported to the capital of King Nebuchadnezzar II
at Babylon whose empire by then was under the able
administration in the capital city of Babylon byfour Jewish princes;
Daniel, the
Prince of Judah and his three Jewish government administers, Shadrack, Meshack,
and Abendigo, whose Hebrew names were Hananiah, Mishael,
and Azariah.

Only forty seven years after
the destruction of Jerusalem, in the year of 536 BCE(Jewish year 372 BCE),
the Babylonian Empire was overthrown by an Israeli general, Gobryas the
Gutti, the Military Commander of the Persian-Median
coalition under the military rule of Cyrus the Great. If the
histories are correct, then ten years later in the year of 529 BCE (Jewish year 352 BCE),
the forces of Cyrus the Great, the husband of theJewish Queen Esther,
were defeated when Cyrus attacked the tribes of the Massa-getai,
who were ruled by their Queen Tomyris near the Jaxartes River. According
to Haberman, Cyrus the Great was killed at this time, by the
Saki-Guti-Kummerian troops.

It would not be until the year of 301 BCE, that the division of the Grecian Empire
of Alexander the Great, who died in the year of 323 BCE, occurred. It was Frederick Haberman, in his book, “Tracing our Ancestors” who
explained the links between the Saki of the Israelite
tribes and the Parthian Empire that erupted
out of the Grecian Seleucid Empire.

Frederick
Haberman – “After the Battle of Ipsus in 301 B.C. the whole
of Persia fell under the sway of Seleucus, and when his kingdom broke up fifty years later, there arose a new power, Parthia,
whose very name, identical to Parthy,
Prat, or Brat indicated
that its people were of the Covenant race of Israel the
Saki. The Parthian revolt against the Greeks was headed
by Ar-sakes whose name, meaning“the ruling Sak” again proves
who the leading element of Parthia were. It must be explained
here that not all of the people of Ariana in those days were Saki; no indeed, the
main population of that country was Hamitic and also Sarmatians of Japhetic strain and in the most eastern
sections were even some Turanian or Mongolian people.”(Frederick Haberman, “Tracing our
Ancestors” pg. 125-126)

It was the Saki-Israelite-Parthian’s
invention of the light cavalry who were armed with bows and
arrows and with their swords led them to be one of the most
formidable warriors in ancient warfare. They were adept in skirmishes,
hit-and-run warfare, very much like the British Cymric when they
confronted the military power of Rome. It was the Parthian heavy
cavalry called the cataphracts who wore steel helmets, coats of mail
made of leather coated with iron scale armor that were used by
the Sacians (Saki tribes) in Media at the Jaxartes River when they overthrew
the Greco-Bactrian
Kingdom in the year of 130 BCE. This was the same place, the Jaxartes River
where Cyrus the
Great met his fate by the hands of the Massa-getai, by
the troops of the Gutti, Catti, and Saki tribes.

As Haberman continued:

Frederick
Haberman – “But it was the Saki who started what civilization that part
of the world enjoyed. The Parthians were renowned as horsemen
and archers. They were clad in mail, by which their steeds
were also protected. Their military tactics were proverbial. For
almost three
centuries the Parthian power extended
its sway, even into Syria, where they defeated a Roman
army; but after 50 A.D. their power
declined, for the good reason that the Saghs who had been the backbone of the nation
departed and followed their kinsmen into Europe.”(Frederick Haberman, “Tracing our
Ancestors” pg. 125-126)

Yet, it was not just
to the western regions of Europe that the Lost Tribes of the
House of Israel would eventually amalgamate into the nations of
the world. We begin at the site of the last place of deportation
for truly it was the site most far away from their invaders
and as deportees they wanted to be as far away from Assyria as they
could. Along the River Gozan, identified as the Volga River
in the Collected Essays and
Research of the veteran mythologist and catastrophist, the
Jewish Psychiatrist Immanuel Velikovsky, in
his article titled, “Beyond the Mountains
of Darkness”.

Immanuel
Velikovsky – “It appears that the places to which the Ten
Tribes were removed by the Assyrian kings must have been far more
remote than northeastern Syria. Assyria, with its capital cities
of Nimrud (Calah), Dur Sharrukin (Khorsabad), and Nineveh—all on
the Tigris—expanded greatly in the days of its warrior kings
Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon, and Sennacherib. Repeatedly, the Assyrian
kings led their troops across the Caucasus northward. Not satisfied
with the passage along the coastal road of the Caspian Sea,
they also explored the mountainous passes. Sargon, the conqueror
of Samaria, wrote in his annals:

Sargon the Conqueror of Samaria
– “I opened up mighty mountains, whose passes were difficult and countless,
and I spied out their trails.Over inaccessible paths in steep
and terrifying places I crossed . . .(5)

The descriptions of Tiglath-pileser
and Sargon
of their campaigns in the north lead us to recognize that they
passed the mountains of the Caucasus and reached the steppes between
the Don and
the Volga. When the barrier of the mountains was overcome,
they could proceed northward in a scarcely populated area barren
of natural defenses, where they would have met less resistance
than in the foothills of the mountains. It is unknown how far
they may have let their armies of conquest march across the steppes,
but probably they did not give the order to return homeward until
the army brought its insignia to some really remote point: it
could be as far as the place of the confluence of the Kama with the Volga, or even
of the Oka, still farther north. The
middle flow of the Volga would be
the furthermost region of the Assyrian realm.

The roads to the Russian steppes along
the Caspian and Black seas were much more readily passable
than the narrow path along the River Terek and the Daryal Canyon that cut the Caucasus and
wind at the foot of Mount Kazbek, over sixteen thousand feet high. The fact that the “confluence of the river
Gozan” is considered a sufficient designation
suggests that it must have been a great stream. A large
river in the plain behind the crest of the Caucasus is the Don, and a still
larger river—the largest in Europe—is the Volga.

If the Assyrians did notmake a halt
on the plain that stretches immediately behind the Caucasus
and moved along the great rivers without crossing them to conquer
the great plain that lies open behind the narrow span
where the rivers Don and Volga converge—then the most probable place of
exile might be reckoned to be at the middle Volga.
The distance from Dur Sharrukin to this region on the Russian
(Scythian) plain is in fact much less than the distance from Nineveh
to Thebes in Egypt, a path taken by Assurbanipal several decades
later. Under Esarhaddon
and Assurbanipal, Assyrian armies repeatedly invaded “Patursi and Kusi”
—Upper Egypt and Ethiopia (Sudan). But Assyrian occupation of Scythia
is not a mere conjecture: it is confirmed by archaeological
evidence. “The earliest objects from Scythia that we can date,”
writes a student of the region’s antiquities, “referred to
the VIIth and
VIth centuries B.C., are under overwhelming Assyrian influence.
. .” (6)

The exiles who were removed from Samaria,a city
of palaces and temples, no doubt, bewailed the capital
they had heroically defended for three years against the army
of what was, in its time, the world’s most powerful nation. Accordingly they
might have called their new settlement Samara(in Hebrew Shemer
or Shomron;
Sumur
in the el-Amarna letters).”

In the region of the Middle Volga,
the tribes of Israel rested, settled and awaited the divine
call to move to the lands closer to their final habitation. This
place of resting was picked by the hand of the Lord, for here
the footsteps of the Israelites and the Jews were left in
the legacy of the Khazars that disputed ancient Russian land
whose ruling leaders were Jewish and spoke Hebrew. Long
blamed on the Jews as a conspiracy, Immanuel Velikovsky
gives this ancient people who believed in the Hebrew way
of life a new lease of historical understanding.

Immanuel Velikovsky – “On the middle
flow of the Volga, a city with the name Samara exists and has existed since grey
antiquity. It is situated a short distance downstream from
the point where the Volga and the Kama join.Russian
conquerors of the ninth century found this city in existence. The
medieval Arab geographer Yakubi, basing himself on accounts of the ninth-century travellerIbn Fadlan,
speaks of the Khazars who dwelt in Samara.(7)
This people dominated southern and eastern Russia possibly as early
as the third,(8)
but especially during the tenth and eleventh centuries. They passed
the Caucasus mountains to participate in the wars of the Romans
and the Persians, dominated the Ukraine as far as Kiev, concluded treaties with
the emperors of
Byzantium, and their influence and suzerainty sometimes reached
as far west as Sofia.(9)

The ruling class of the Khazars used Hebrew as its language,
and the Hebrew faith was the official religion in the realm of the
Khazars. There was a system of great tolerance,
unique in the Middle Ages, in respect to other religions;
the Supreme Court was composed of two persons of Jewish faith, two
Moslems, two Christians, and one idolater of the Russian
population; but it was not a confusion of creeds as it had been
in old Samaria, which tolerated many creeds, the monotheism of Yahweh
being a protesting ingredient of the confusion.

Were the Khazars or their ruling
aristocracy converted to Judaism in a later age?This
position was based on what was said in a letter of the Khazar king Joseph,written about the year 961, to the Jewish grandee, Hasdai ibn-Shaprut, at the court
of Cordoba. ‘Abd-al-Rahman
al-Nasir, the Moorish ruler of Spain, had asked the King of the Khazars
to provide any available information about his people,
Hasdai’s brothers in religion. In the letter of reply the Khazar
king recited a tradition or a legend; advocates of three
religions came to some prior king of the Khazars, and he picked
the Jewish faith because the Christian and the Mohammedan
alike gave preference to the Jewish religion above that of
their respective rival.(10)

The story exposes
its mythical character. In the seventh or eighth centuries of the present era,
the adepts of the Jewish faith were persecuted by the Christians
and also by the Moslems, and would hardly be chosen to become
the religion of the state. A similar legend of “choosing” a religion
is told about Vladimir
of Kiev: in this legend the Khazars were the delegates
representing the Jewish faith. Had the Khazars been converted
to Judaism, it would be almost incredible that they would call their city
by the name Samara. Samaria was a sinful city from the point
of view of the nation that survived in Palestine after the fall
of Samaria, and out of which eventually grew the rabbinical
Judaism of later centuries. The conversion to the Jewish religion
would also not imply the adoption of the Hebrew language. It
is remarkable that the state language of the Khazars was Hebrew;
the king of the Khazars was quite capable of reading and answering
a Hebrew letter.

Long before the correspondence between
Joseph and Hasdai of the tenth century, the Khazar monarchs
had Hebrew names. The dynasts previous to King Joseph were
in the ascending order: Aaron, Benjamin, Menahem, Nisi, Manasseh II, Isaac, Hannukah,
Manasseh, Hezekiah, and Obadiah.

A conversion to Judaism in the seventh or eighth century of the present
era would bring with it names common to Hebrews in the early
Middle Ages, like Saadia or Nachman; the Judaism of the early
Christian agewas rich in names like Hillel,
Gamliel, while Hellenistic
names like Alexander, or Aristobul were not
infrequent. Again, the Biblical names of an early period would give prominence
to names like Joab, Gideon, or Iftach, and still an older group of names
would be Gad, Issahar, Zwulun or Benjamin.

It is peculiar that some of the kings
of the Khazars were called by the names
used in Israel at the time that
Samaria was captured by the Assyrians. Hezekiah is
said to have been the king of Jerusalem at that time(II Kings 18:10), and the name of his son
and successor was Manasseh. Obadiah was one of the most common
names at that time and in the preceding century. It seems not
arbitrary to assume that the Khazars absorbed, or even originally
were, the remnants of some of the tribes of Israel.

It is most probable that the religious
reform among the Khazars, about which some tradition was preserved
until the tenth
century, is to be interpreted as an act of purification
of the half-pagan religion that the exiles from Samaria brought
into and developed in their new abodes on the Volga, and as an act
of return to the old Hebrew religion of Yahweh. This might have been
performed with the help of some Hebrews who perchance left the schools of Sura and Pumbadita,
where the Babylonian
Talmud was composed. Old Jewish authors(11)
actually mention the fact that teachers of rabbinical Judaism
were invited to the kingdom of the Khazars as early as the
eighth century.
Possibly, the name “Khazars,” despite a difference in writing,
is to be interpreted as “Those Who Return.”A long, probably illiterate
period, when Hebrew was used only in speech, may have preceded
the period of revival of learning and purification of faith.”

We
have seen so far that upwards to 3,000,000 from the 10-Tribes of Israel
plus over 200,000citizens
of the Tribe of
Judah were exiled from their capital
city, Samaria, and the 46 northern cities
and border
fortresses of Judah. Slowly the entire land of Israel
was becoming depopulated as they were deported into the lands
in the east to the north of modern Iran. There in these bordering
buffer zones they protected the outlying regions of Assyria.

For over one hundred years
(721 – 606
BCE), members of all the 12-Tribes of Israel lived along the southern borders
of the Caspian
Sea, called the “Silver Sea” in Hebrew. Many of their warriors
participated in the anti-Assyrian rebellions by the Medes and the
Babylonians within the regions of the Land of Media. We
saw the Mandans,
who were Israelites under the command of a tribal chieftain
called Manda,
whose ruler was the king of Media, Cyaxarses.When the last of the Assyrians appeared to be declining in
power, the revolts and counter revolutions against the last
of the monarchial forces of Aššur-uballit and his son, Ashur-Etililani, the last “Zar” of Assyria. They
united under the united military coalition forces headed by Nabopolaser, the king
of Babylonand Cyaxarses
theking of Median. With the Israelite
warriors, the last“Zar” of Assyria, Ashur-Etililani, perished in the conflagration and destruction
of Nineveh in the year of 606 BCE. Eight years later (598 BCE),Jerusalem and their internationally famed temple of Solomon were destroyed in a similar pyre of destruction
by the son of King Nabopolaser of Babylon,
King
Nebuchadnezzar I.

Yet, the God of Israel
already had the time appointed mark for the destiny of Babylon. Like
Assyria of old, regardless of what each emperor or Zar thought
of himself, each ruler was destined to fulfill the assigned
destiny of the God of Israel. When the seventy years allotment for the empire
built by King
Nebuchadnezzar and the walls of the most impregnable
fortressed city in the ancient world, Babylon, were actually
breached by a descendant of the deported Israelites, the time
of the end for Babylon was now over.

From
the beginning invasions scouting and depopulating the “young princes and rulers”
of Jerusalem to learn and become pacified and assimilated
into Babylonian societybeginning in the year of 608 BCE, seventy years
would pass, and in the most spectacular bloodless takeover of an impregnable
city in history, a brilliance Israeli General Commander Gobryas, of the combined
forces of Media and Persia under Cyrus the Great, walked under the opened
flood gates along the Euphrates River. After penetrating the perimeters
of the city, the Persian forces quickly captured the entire
upper echelon of the military and government of King Belshazzar.They were celebrating in the royal banquet room the seventy years
since the capture and destruction of Jerusalem by drinking
of the wine of the coming wrath while desecrating the golden
chalices and goblets that were consecrated and dedicated
to be used only for the sacred worship to the Almighty One of
Israel.

As the “finger of the Lord”
spelled out the destiny of doom for the Babylonian empire, it
took an Israeli
general to take over the city and liberate it with the
coming Messiah, Cyrus the Great, the “destined one” who would redeem
and repatriate the Jewish people back to Jerusalem, their homeland.It
was time for the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel to move
to their next destination, the Land of Samara along the Middle Volga River. There
where the River Samara flows into the Volga River, the House
of Israelrested, protected and isolated north of the Caucasus
Mountain. A new transformation was about to take place. The
identity of the Nation of Israel was disappearing. As
Israel became “lost”, there arose on the plains north of the Caucasus Mountains,
the Caspian Sea,
and the Black
Sea a new vigorous and potent geo-political force. As
the Nation of
Israel disappeared, the Scythian race appeared upon the EuroAsian
landscape to take their place.

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